Hi all, new to plants not aquariums and just started my first planted tank. It's a 65 gallon (36x18x25), my light is a 36" LED, red white and blue lights, par 95, lux 6300 (no idea what these mean, is this considered high light)? I haven't added any plants yet as I need to order them but I'm...

I'll post a short background on how the tank got to this point below, but does anyone know what's going on here / seen this before: Short background: last summer I went on a long-ish vacation (10 days) and asked my non-fish keeping neighbor to feed my small cohort of nano-fish once and a...

Here is my 10 gallon blackwater rio Orinoco biotope which uses the walstad method, I’m considering submitting it into the BADC2021 contest. Any advice to make it better? It has 4 celithacara maronii (keyhole chiclid) and 10 nannostromus beckfordI (beckfords pencilfish) my goal is to get into...

Hi guys I have a 40 gallon tank that I’ve had for a while and I decided that I wanna make it into a serious planted tank. I do know stuff about plants and I have had planted tanks and I still do but I wanna make a tank where the focus is the plants. I have 4 SAE 7 mixed Rainbowfish 6 corydoryas...

Hey Ya'll, I have a whole house water filtration system that does an amazing job of cleaning all the nasties out of the tap water. I just bought a brand new 55 Gal that I am starting the cycle on this weekend but was wondering what people think about the tap water already being dechlorinated...